Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
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Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
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Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
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Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#3With the LLM craze there are some setups abusing redis as a (vector) DB. Please don't! Redis is a cache and wants to keep everything in RAM, eating GBs of RAM with relatively few entries. Keeping that manageable is also non-trivial so please just use a sane option like postgres for anything like that. https://redis.io/docs/management/optimization/memory-optimiz...
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#4Does anyone know of all the Redis forks that were created since the license change? I wonder if any of them will consolidate.
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#5This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis.
redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen.
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#6This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis. redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen. https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
You say that like it's a problem. Isn't the point of open source to be able to share so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem?
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#7This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis. redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen. https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
Hi, co-creator of Valkey here. I'm not that worried about it. There are a lot of people who have tried to maintain Redis folks, my employer AWS has one such fork I know very well, and they quickly become extremely hard to maintain with your own code. These aren't problems Redis wants to solve, they are off in their GenAI space building fancy extensions. For the next year or so it might be a real concern, but we are thinking long term, and I don't think it'll matter for long.
So, we thought the best approach was to stick with the license and get us into a vendor neutral foundation. We haven't ruled out LGPL, we just didn't make the change unilaterally and as a foundational part of the fork. We just want to keep building :)
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#8This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis. redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen. https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
You say that like it's a problem. Isn't the point of open source to be able to share so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem?
Yes, the point of open source is to share, so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem. Redis does not do that.
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#9This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis. redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen. https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
Hi, co-creator of Valkey here. I'm not that worried about it. There are a lot of people who have tried to maintain Redis folks, my employer AWS has one such fork I know very well, and they quickly become extremely hard to maintain with your own code. These aren't problems Redis wants to solve, they are off in their GenAI space building fancy extensions. For the next year or so it might be a real concern, but we are t…
Any idea why this fork has the support of the linux foundation in favour of any other?
Re: Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, co-creator of Valkey here. I'm not that worried about it. There are a lot of people who have tried to maintain Redis folks, my employer AWS has one such fork I know very well, and they quickly become extremely hard to maintain with your own code. These aren't problems Redis wants to solve, they are off in their GenAI space building fancy extensions. For the next year or so it might be a real concern, but we are t…
Any idea why this fork has the support of the linux foundation in favour of any other?
Valkey is run by the companies that control the Linux Foundation.